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The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of

by: Butler, Charles, -1647

Publication date: 1634

Topics: Bees, Bees

Publisher: Oxford : Printed by William Turner, for ðe Author

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries; medicallibrary

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: English

Rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

Item Size: 373.6M

16, 182 pages : (4to)

Third edition. First published 1609

Printed according to the system of orthography proposed by the author in his English grammar, 1633

"Melissomelos, or Bee's madrigal" (the song of the bees at swarming): 4 pages of table-music (p. 78-81)

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